Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2007-04-18 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2007-04-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:15, Dale wrote: It has been a while and I still can not get mondoarchive to work. I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # mondoarchive Initializing... See /var/log/mondo-archive.log for details of backup run. root is mounted at /dev/hda Checking sanity of

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2007-04-18 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: That's because it cannot find mindi: bach ~ # mindi -bash: mindi: command not found /usr/sbin/mindi is a broken symlink to /usr/share/mindi/mindi, which does not exist. There is a bug for this on b.g.o. (along with others for missing dependencies in the ebuild).

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:34:40 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. Yes, you can skip them. /tmp as well, but you have to create the empty directory after restoration. Same for /dev. I

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:48:38 -0600, Dale wrote: OK. I downloaded Kdar so far. It was smaller and I'm on dial-up. Does these programs preserve file permissions? Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the CD. dar can split the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue makes the first backup CD

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:07:50 -0600, Dale wrote: Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the CD. dar can split the archives into CD (or DVD) sized chunks and kdar can (AFAIR) write them to disc. dar also creates an index of what's in which file and writes this

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:07:50 -0600, Dale wrote: Yes, because the files are stored in an archive file, not directly on the CD. dar can split the archives into CD (or DVD) sized chunks and kdar can (AFAIR) write them to disc. dar also creates an index of what's in

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 December 2006 13:12, Dale wrote: OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. This slow dial-up sucks. :-( For complete partition/disk/OS backups I have used partimage. No doubt it comes with many recovery

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be done. Mondorescue

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 13:12, Dale wrote: OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. This slow dial-up sucks. :-( For complete partition/disk/OS backups I have used partimage. No doubt it

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 04:53, Dale wrote: Speaking of booting, it would be nice if the first CD was bootable and could be restored that way. I only have one CD drive at the moment so something to boot from would be nice. Yes, that can be

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote: OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something missing and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked? [cut] Are you trying to install mindi by itself or as part of an emerge mondo-rescue? Seems like some dependency is

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2006 15:12, Dale wrote: OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. Yes, you can skip them. /tmp as well, but you have to create the empty directory after restoration. Same for /dev. I am nott too sure

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote: OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something missing and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked? [cut] Are you trying to install mindi by itself or as part of an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:02:24 -0600 Dale wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:33, Dale wrote: OK. Now I get this for mindi-1.11. One version has something missing and the other fails to compile. Wonder why this is masked? [cut] Are you trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 December 2006 17:04, Dale wrote: Unpacking source... Unpacking mondo-2.10.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/mondo-rescue-2.10/work gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors !!! ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 24 December 2006 18:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/iso/mondorescue.iso (it's there, despite the site saying that it's currently unavailable). Ok, it's definitely NOT there :) I've been fooled by the fact that after clicking on it the browser was asking me to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 17:04, Dale wrote: Unpacking source... Unpacking mondo-2.10.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/mondo-rescue-2.10/work gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-24 Thread Dale
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 18:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org/iso/mondorescue.iso (it's there, despite the site saying that it's currently unavailable). Ok, it's definitely NOT there :) I've been fooled by the fact that after clicking on

[gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dale, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Ed Santiago
I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not required. I've been in the same boat the last week, and have investigated a

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have